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From the Dean

Welcome to UofT Music! To what we hope will be one of the great adventures of your life!

Home to a diverse and dynamic community of scholars, performers, composers, and educators, the University of Toronto Faculty of Music has long been a Canadian leader. Our central mission is academic and artistic excellence in musical creation, performance, education, and research. Our role is to provide our students with the best possible range and quality of academic and artistic experiences. Yours is to explore those many opportunities and to create new ones in your own unique voice. Make the most of your opportunities with our faculty, facilities, and location—as part of one of the world’s great universities, in the heart of one of North America’s great cities. Music and the performing arts in general have major roles to play in helping secure the global future. As musicians and musical thinkers you will contribute to that enterprise as tomorrow’s creative leaders.

With best wishes for your artistic and academic studies, and for the life-changing experiences that lie ahead,

Don McLean, B.Mus., ARCT, Ph.D.Dean and Professor, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto

STUDENTS

You will find support everywhere on the University of Toronto campus, starting with the Registrar’s Office. The Registrar's Office at the Faculty of Music is your "reliable first stop" for information and advice on academic, personal, and financial issues. The office is also responsible for the administrative operations of the undergraduate program, including registrarial and student records, course administration, convocation, examinations, marks, information on scholarships and bursaries as well as policies on academic regulations.

If you are a current graduate student, you will find more information here.

Check out Ulife - your one-stop website listing a large and diverse directory of student clubs, organizations, activities and opportunities on all three campuses.

You can also build your supporting cast just by getting out there. Explore the campus. Try something new. Meet new people. Be active. Contribute something to the community. The more you explore, the more friends you’ll make, the more you’ll know about the services, and the more you’ll know about how to get what you need when you need it.

Browse the important websites and discover the many services that will serve as your advocates and as your cheerleaders. They’re here to hold you up when you struggle and to help you grow when you’re ready.

FAMILY & FRIENDS

Someone you know and are close to is following up on a dream…and we are here to support and enhance his or her future.

Your words and presence are invaluable in their thoughts and in their lives.

More than educators, we also live and breathe music – performance, research, education, and new areas of opportunity.

We are privileged to have bright, passionate and talented students to colour our world and we invest ourselves in furthering their ambitions and helping them to realize their potential.

While you are with us, we hope you will experience our music with us by attending one of our many concerts and events.

Please also check out We Live Herefor more on things to see and do in Toronto.

JOB POSTINGS

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, FACULTY OF MUSIC

Full-Time Positions

No positions available at this time.

Filling positions under the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement

The Faculty of Music hires Sessional Lecturers to deliver some of its undergraduate and graduate courses. Teaching positions for individual courses are posted below. Decisions concerning hiring are made in June for Fall or Winter courses. Some decisions may be made earlier or later depending on enrolment and unexpected vacancies. Persons who submit applications and CVs will receive emailed job posting information for specific positions for the subsequent 24 months.

To be considered for a position, an application form and Curriculum Vitae must be submitted to:

A valid email address is required. We prefer that applications and CVs be submitted via email. For a fillable application form contact Eddy at the link above.

No positions available at this time.

This notice is posted pursuant to the CUPE Local 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement. Please note that in accordance with that agreement, preference in hiring is given to qualified persons holding the rank of Sessional Lecturer II or III.

TOGETHER we...

CREATE ...PRODUCE

We create new music through programs in Composition, Jazz, Film/Media and Large Ensembles. We create new music through our composer-in-residence programs, our Electronic Music Studio and our GamUT Contemporary Ensemble. And we celebrate new music annually through our New Music Festival with its Distinguished Visitor and our Karen Kieser Composition Prize.

We produce new music through our Opera and Early Music programs. New stagings of classic and contemporary operas that train professional singers, instrumentalists, stage directors, repetiteurs, and coaches. And we celebrate annually with a new fully staged, orchestrated opera on an original libretto through UofT Opera and our Opera Student Composer Collective.

PLAY...PERFORM

Many languages make reference to the ludic qualities of music making: play in English, jouer en français, spielen auf Deutsch.

Do you play an instrument? Are you interested in performing at the highest level?

Our goal is to give you the best foundational technical and finest advanced artistic training possible through private studio teaching with many of Toronto’s top professional teachers and players. While with us, you will play in well-coached UofT chamber music ensembles (strings, winds, brass, percussion, piano, guitar, early music, contemporary music, world music) and perform in UofT’s renowned large ensembles (opera, orchestra, winds, choirs, early music).

TEACH...LEARN

Schoenberg introduced his 1911 Theory of Harmony text with the words “I have learned this book from my students.”

At UofT Music we believe that the Teaching / Learning relationship is a powerful dialogue where enthusiasm meets experience and together we act in the service of musical creation, expression, and understanding.

Your undergraduate music degree program also includes opportunities to take a range of courses in Arts & Science or other subject areas from the greater UofT and its distinctive College system...and you have access to a Music Library that ranks as one of the best in the world.

As you build your fluency and expertise relation between Think and Do, between thought and action becomes seamless.

SPACE

Established in 1918, UofT Music is Canada’s leading institution for higher education in music and is a growing global presence in musical training, interdisciplinary research, and digital media content development.

UofT Music is committed to preparing our students for successful careers in and beyond music in a swiftly changing global environment. We embrace the global challenges of building culturally informed, healthy, sustainable societies, and preparing global citizens for leadership roles.

(2) The Faculty of Music South (90W), a satellite building at 90 Wellesley, a converted dormitory built in 1955, used by Music since 2007 and partially renovated in 2011 for Jazz, graduate student offices, and other Performance functions.

(3) The transformative new major New Building Project now in the planning stages for 90 Queen’s Park (90QP) in partnership with other university and external stakeholders, which will connect the EJB directly to the 90QP facility and will include a New Recital Hall for Music as well as other related spaces for performance, conferences, and special events.

Named for Arnold Walter, Dean of UofT Music (1952-1968), with 490 seats, Walter Hall is Toronto's finest small auditorium. Designed for chamber music and solo recitals, Walter Hall also has a Casavant Organ.

Exciting news - we are building a new recital hall located in a new facilty at 90 Queen's Park Crescent. If you are interested in a naming opportunity for our new hall at 90QP, please contact Don McLean, Dean of the Faculty of Music.

ENSEMBLES

Resident & Visiting Ensembles

UofT Music is the privileged host of many Resident & Visiting Ensembles. Hosting ensembles is another way we provide rich experiences for our community. The ensembles bring scholarship, performance, and mentorship to our stages and classrooms...we bring the opportunity to work with students.

Our partnerships extend to all of the major performing ensembles and arts organizations in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA)...proximity to great sounds and organizations is one of the best features of our location in Toronto—a world city for music.

GIVE & TAKE

THE CASE FOR SUPPORT

UofT's Faculty of Music is the engine that drives the performers, composers, scholars, and educators who will shape tomorrow's musical experience and sustain Canada's cultural economy.

Intensive classroom teaching and performance coaching by distinguished faculty and visitors pushes our students to explore new possibilities. Not a day goes by without lectures, master classes, and performances of special note. Our mentorship program connects alumni with current students helping them make the transition from the academy to the working world.

We rely on donors like you to ensure that our exciting programs continue. Donors like you ensure that our young musicians have the financial support necessary to be able to focus on their studies to achieve their artistic and academic goals.

Campaign Priorities & Philanthropic Opportunities for the Faculty of Music

In his previous position, Dean McLean was in part responsible for the largest naming gift to a performing arts faculty in Canada’s history. The Faculty of Music was not named in UofT’s previous campaign. What a Boundless opportunity for a visionary philanthropist! It is now Toronto and UofT’s turn.

State-of-the-art when it opened in 1964, this home venue for our renowned UofT Opera and large ensemble programs, with its still awesome stage and fly tower, is overdue for a transformative renewal that will return it to world-class status as a theatre for opera production and related performing arts presentations, training, and digital presence.

In September 2014, UofT announced exciting plans for the transformation of the 90 Queen’s Park site in partnership with multiple stakeholders inside and outside of the University. For the Faculty of Music, the 90QP project will create a “New Recital Hall” (a world-class space and high-profile naming opportunity), and will provide direct connection from Philosopher’s Walk to Queen’s Park Crescent and Avenue Road through the Edward Johnson Building and into the Atrium of the new complex with its New Recital Hall and related spaces for performance and conference activities.

UofT’s Music Library collection is a national treasure and one of the top four music research libraries in North America. Moved to a largely subterranean new wing in 1990, the Music Library offers a stellar naming opportunity for an enlightened donor. Renovation plans focus on creating a modern teaching and learning environment to complement our ongoing responsibility for the preservation and development of this amazing collection.

Established in 2012, MaHRC is quickly moving to create a global leadership position in the emergent interdisciplinary field of music and health, to enhance our understanding of the role of music and sound in individual and societal health and wellbeing. With already over 50 researchers from Music, Medicine, and other faculties, the UHN (University Health Network), other clinical research teams, and partners for other universities, MaHRC is seeking support for its innovative mission, projects, and collaborative programs. A transformative naming opportunity for someone, a target for directed support from several individuals already.

Celebrating its 50th anniversary season this past year, since its inception soon after WW II UofT Opera has been Canada’s pre-eminent university-based opera training program. Over the years UofT Opera has been the training ground for many of Canada’s greatest singing, coaching, conducting, directing, and theatre design talent. Today our graduates continue to win major competitions and to move on to professional companies and young artist programs. UofT Opera: a legacy naming opportunity for some great philanthropist and a popular direction for support from our loyal annual donors.

Many Areas in performance, teaching, and research at UofT Music have outstanding potential and they need to attract and retain high-profile faculty in an increasingly global talent pool. Support for Faculty Leaders helps secure and sustain excellence.

As part of the University of Toronto the Faculty of Music is committed to providing access and opportunity to the best and brightest students regardless of means. Graduate Fellowships are absolutely essential to attract the best national and international prospects. Though our students do quite well in securing limited available external research funding, we need major philanthropic support to provide graduate fellowships across all program areas at the master and doctoral levels. UofT Music has benefited from significant scholarship support (both endowed and annual) from many donors over several decades. But to remain competitive in a global context we need to be able to offer more substantial Undergraduate Scholarships and Graduate Fellowships, and to provide deeper Program Support to enhance student experience, notably to assist individuals and ensembles with travel to competitions, conferences, master classes, international exchanges, and summer programs.

In addition to the Alumni Annual Fund, the Dean’s Discretionary Fund provides resources to take advantage of opportunities as they arise: to provide ‘seed money’ or start-up funding for a new course, program, or research project, to purchase instruments and technical equipment, to ‘match’ other partnership sources. We hope to grow this fund substantially through direct funding and endowment.

Give & Take Stories

At UofT Music we want to work with you to support our students and programs and we make every effort to acknowledge and thank our donors.

At this year's season launch/welcome, Dean Don McLean shared this story about the emotional and relational importance of philanthropy from higher-education fundraising legend Don Gray:

Never Forget the Rose to the Widow and the Drum Serenade...

A middle class family who enjoyed the music of their local University gave a modest donation to its Music Faculty in memory of a late father and husband. The Dean immediately thanked them for their kind generosity and suggested that they might like to meet the beneficiary, the young student that their scholarship would support. They had the opportunity to meet her and to hear her graduating recital.

At the end of four years the family was also invited to attend convocation. As the young student stepped up to receive her diploma, she also received, as was custom at that school, a single rose. She turned, crossed the stage, and handed her rose to the widow who had made her graduation possible through that funded scholarship... a beautiful and graceful moment.

Years later, that same family made another donation to the marching band drum corps at another school. On a particular game day, the drum corps met the donor in front of the football stadium gate, surrounded her and, without any words exchanged, performed a drum serenade salute for her and then peeled off into the stadium.

When you are thinking about the power of philanthropy, particularly philanthropy in Music and performing arts:

Support Programs

Imagine visiting a parent in a seniors' home. Today he may be withdrawn, confused, and agitated, he may have lost the ability to communicate, perhaps even recognize you. It is hard.

But, suddenly, when he listens to music...his toes start to tap, he calms down, and he begins to sing along...

MaHRC (The Music and Health Research Collaboratory) brings together experts in music, medicine, and clinical practice. MaHRC's researchers study diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, stroke, chronic pain...and how music can and does make a difference.

Through UofT Music, UofT, UHN (The University Health Network), and other external partners, we are quickly moving to a global leadership position in this emergent field. You can support MaHRC and Music Research.

At UofT Music we are a national leader in Music Research in composition, performance, theory, musicology, ethnomusicology and education, and we offer a wide range of respected and renowned performance programs in many domains: classical, jazz, early music, contemporary, opera. Our humanities-based research on music & society, as well as our groundbreaking work in music & health, and our national leadership through the Institute for Canadian Music (ICM) need your support to sustain our award-winning efforts.

UofT Music offers numerous undergraduate scholarships and graduate level fellowships annually. A complete list of our current Scholarship & Fellowship offerings can be found here (INSERT). The need remains far greater than our remarkable current capacity. At the present time, and notwithstanding our students' extraordinary levels of success in receiving outside scholarly grants, we still need to fund too many of our graduate students through scarce operating resources. Supporting graduate students annually can have an extraordinary positive impact on them personally and on the Faculty's overall ability to carry out our mission.

Every annual gift has an impact on UofT Music students...the Faculty of Music trains performers, scholars, composers, and music educators for the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. The Annual Fund and the Dean's Discretionary Fund together help support many student and program activities, and are often used to leverage additional outside resources that help us realize projects that would otherwise be impossible. You can support our Annual Fund and Dean's Discretionary Fund online, or please contact our Director of Advancement, Bruce Blandford.

We are privileged to be teamed with several corporations and foundations who support our students and our programs, often by providing matching gifts. With help from your employer, your generous gift can double or triple in size . To find out how we can work better together, contact our Director of Advancement, Bruce Blandford.

Leave a lasting legacy by including UofT Music in your estate planning. A gift by will or bequest provides you with the opportunity to support UofT Music once your needs and those of your loved ones have been met.

Elevate the moment…

Six Graduating Students Receive Big Faculty awards

10 June 2016

The Faculty of Music is proud to announce that mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo (BMus Perf 2016) is the recipient of the Tecumseh Sherman Rogers Graduating Award and bassoonist Bianca Chambul (BMus Perf 2016) is the recipient of the William and Phyllis Waters Graduating Award.

Each of the prestigious graduating awards comes with a prize of $25,000, the largest awards given by the Faculty of Music. For consideration of the award, candidates are required to submit an application with letters of recommendation, an outline of future goals and how the award will assist in financing their career development following graduation.

Established in 2005, the William and Phyllis Waters Graduating Award created by Dr. William Waters and the Tecumseh Sherman Rogers Graduating Award created by Dr. John B. Lawson are given to graduating students of the Faculty of Music who are Ontario residents who are deemed to have the greatest potential to make an important contribution to the field of music. The awards were created to support and encourage graduating students to achieve their career goals.

A winner of the 2016 Metropolitan Opera National Council Audition Finals, Emily was also named the winner of the 2015 Centre Stage Competition at the Canadian Opera Company, and the 2016 American National Opera Association Competition. She received second prize at the 2015 OREL Foundation Ziering-Conlon Competition in Los Angeles, and the German Lieder Prize at the 2016 Art Song Preservation Society Competition. The 2015-16 competition season also saw her recognized with awards from both the George London Foundation and the Gerda Lissner/ Liederkranz Foundation.

Bianca received the 2015 Apprentice of the Year Award with Boris Brott’s National Academy Orchestra, and received the Award of Excellence from the National Youth Orchestra of Canada in 2012 and 2013. She won the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra and University of Toronto concerto competitions. As a soloist, she has performed for John Weinzweig’s Centenary Celebration, gamUT Contemporary Music Ensemble, and as a semifinalist in the Meg Quigley Vivaldi Bassoon Competition in Texas. Bianca has performed professionally with the Group of 27, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Orchestra London, and Niagara Symphony.

“Emily is a remarkable young singer on track for an international career, and Bianca is a phenomenal performer heading towards an orchestral position and a career as a soloist and chamber musician,” says Associate Dean Ryan McClelland.

The committee also selected four other students to receive smaller graduating awards: Emily Denison and Meagan Turner, who are graduating from the Bachelor of Music in Performance and the Advanced Certificate in Performance; and Cecilia Livingston and Jeremy Strachan, who are graduating from the DMA in composition and PhD in musicology.

Emily Denison is a jazz trumpeter who will be touring in Canada this spring, and she has long-term plans for creating a music performance venue in Toronto.

Violist Meagan Turner will be starting her master’s degree at Juilliard with Samuel Rhodes (former violist of the Juilliard Quartet) in the fall.

Composer and musicologist Cecilia Livingston, who has been a fellow with America Opera Projects and published articles in peer-reviewed journals, will begin post-doctoral research at King’s College in London under the mentorship of Professor Roger Parker.

Musicologist Jeremy Strachan will be on a post-doc for the next two years at Cornell University during which time he expects to complete a book on experimental music in Canada during the past fifty years. His research has been recognized with several prestigious awards from organizations such as the American Musicological Society (AMS) and SSHRC.

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UofT MUSIC

UofT Music is a proud part of Canada’s highest-ranked research-intensive university and a community where our range of musical styles is supported and inspired by the musical cultures of our city. With renowned musician teachers and a great library collection, we have our great Moments & Outcomes and we’ll help you have yours.